Do You Believe In Evolution Or The Bible?
Evolutionists refuse to believe the Bible account of how
an infinitely-wise and all-powerful Creator built this planet
and furnished it with every sort of plant and animal life.
So they invent theories of their own to explain the origin of
life. At one time they taught that fleas, worms, mice and low
forms of life sprang up spontaneously from inanimate matter.
The invention of the microscope and the work of Pasteur,
however, exploded this spontaneous generation idea.
Not particularly worried, however, over the fact that they
have absolutely no explaination for the origin of life,
evolutionists are content to dote on simple theories about
one-celled life in a mud puddle evolving to the stature of
a man.
Several of their theories had to be abandoned in the face
of advancing knowledge. Then somebody set forth the acquired
characteristics theory, claiming that environment caused
minute changes to occur in size, shape and color, which traits
were passed on and developed by the succeeding generation
until after millions of years new families appeared. But
modern genetics has proved all this false, as acquired
characteristics are inheritable. Darwin called it "nonsense"!
What next? Darwinism! That is, the belief that in the
struggle for existence natural selection of needed and useful
variations is made, while those variations that prove useless
and weak perish. In other words,`survival of the strongest
and fittest.' Well, how could an eye, or ear, or heart develop
according to this theory, since it would be useless until fully
developed? Or how could a mother's breasts, useless until
complete, persist in developing through thousands of years?
Little wonder evolutionists themselves now cast off this folly
of Darwin.
Science's latest theory; sudden changes, called mutations,
are believed to explain the riddle of evolution. But alas!
this theory also falls down when tested with scientific facts.
Small changes due to mutation find no support in the fossil
records as producing new families, and big changes always
result in freaks. It is a proved fact; mutations are more
harmful than helpful!
Which Fits the Facts?
Lay aside your preconceived ideas and prejudices and
consider this question. Does evolution or the Bible give
the most scientific explanation of the wonders of creation?
Let us compare.
The theory of evolution claims that life began with a
single cell and took millions of years to develop into
complex forms. But the facts of geology reveal that very
complex forms of life appeared suddenly, leaving an
unaccountable billion-year void at the very beginning of the
evolutionary chain. Moreover, the earliest findings show
animal life in the same great variety of families as we have
today. Now the Bible agrees with the scientific facts, not with
the unexplainable theories, declaring: "And God said, Let the
waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly
above the earth... And God said, Let the earth bring forth
living creatures after their kind, cattle, and creeping things,
and beasts of the earth after their kind: and it was so." -
Genesis 1:20, 24.
Evolution claims that man gradually evolved or climbed
upward from the level of some primitive ape, but ancient
archaeological findings show that civilization at the very
beginning was on a high level. The Bible agrees with the facts.
It says original man was perfect, that he has since descended,
fallen, degenerated. If the evolution theory is correct, man's
life span should now be at its longest, but archaeologists have
proved taht the longevity of the ancients was much greater.
Again the Bible sides with the facts and says that in
pre-Flood days men lived many hundreds of years.
Evolution teaches that man's language developed from
animal grunts and growls. The facts show that the oldest
languages were the most complex, the most primitive languages
the hardest to learn, that modern speech has degenerated into
less complex forms. The Bible holds to the facts, and says
that the first man was so perfect in his command of language,
and in his ability to coin new words, that he gave all the birds
and beasts their names. Can you names more than a tenth? -
Genesis 2:19, 20.
The human mind is another unexplainable mystery for
evolutionists. There is a great gulf between the smartest animals
and man, for man has mental powers and capacities far above lower
animals. Man is able to accumulate knowledge from previous
generations and build upon it. Not so animals. They are as primitive
as their ancestors. The wisdom of animals, sometimes great, is not
directed by its possessor, but is a hereditary instinct.
Whereas evolution is at a loss to explain this tremendous
chasm that separates men and animals on the mental level, the
Bible does explain it, for God said: "Let us make man in our
image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the
fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over
the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping
thing." (Genesis 1:26, 27) Not in the likeness of nay animal,
but made in the image and likeness of God; that explains why
mankind has tremendous powers of perception and the ability to
reason, weigh arguments, use logic, and decide between right and
wrong. Only man can display unselfish love, sympathy, mercy and
justice. Only man has the impulse to worship the divine Being.
Bible Scientific and Accurate
At every point of comparison the Bible proves to be true.
Science confirms the exact order of creation as set forth in the
first chapter of Genesis. Not a possibility of its being
guesswork! Science says tha t all races came from a single human
pair. Well, the Bible said that more than three thousand years ago!
- (Genesis 1:27, 28; Acts 17:26) Science knows that cats nad dogs,
birds and rabbits, cattle and pigs cannot be interchangeably bred.
But the Bible knew it first and says each family is made "after
its kind".
Aside from this overwhelming evidence there is even greater
proof of the Bible's accuracy and dependability. Just think of it,
566 years before Jesus as Messiah came, the very year of his
appearance was foretold. The physical facts concerning the life of
Jesus, foretold long centuries before their occurrence, also give
powerful proof of Bible authenticity. You question this? Yet it was
impossible for Jesus to maneuver the events in his life to fulfill
all the prophecies. And what about the fulfillment of Bible prophecy
since 1914? Surely no one will say that believers in the Bible
maneuvered events to bring about World Wars 1 and 2, and the global
food shortages, pestilences, diseases, earthquakes, and the crime,
moral delinquency and general wickedness and woe that have come in
concentrated doses since 1914. Investigate, and you will find the
Bible nearly 2,000 years ago foretold that these terrible things
would plague this present generation, starting A.D 1914.
Their reality inspires faith in the Bible.